SIU Continues Investigation in Burwash Area

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Mississauga (10 June, 2009) --- The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is continuing its investigation
into the circumstances surrounding the death of a 65 year old Sudbury
man in the Burwash Township area on April 30, 2009.

The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) contacted the SIU yesterday at 3:20
p.m. The OPP reported that a call was received from a distraught man
requesting police assistance. As a result officers were dispatched to
the Department of National Defence training site on Highway 69 south of
Sudbury. When officers arrived Wayne Robert Feick was found on the
ground with a suspected gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the
scene. A post mortem was scheduled for 1.00 p.m. today in Sudbury.

Four investigators and two forensic investigators from the SIU are probing the circumstances of this occurrence.

The SIU is an arm’s length agency that investigates reports involving police where there has been death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault. Under the Police Services Act, the Director of the SIU must

consider whether an officer has committed a criminal offence in connection with the incident under investigation

depending on the evidence, lay a criminal charge against the officer if appropriate or close the file without any charges being laid